This website provides accessible up-to-date information on activity in Perth metropolitan emergency departments as well as hospital beds in Perth and the country. WA Health is committed to providing transparent and accountable reporting on health system performance to the community and WA Health staff.

Information provided here serves as a guide only. Patients are advised at all times that they are to attend their nearest emergency department if they require urgent medical attention. Patients are always seen in order of clinical urgency.

The National Health Performance Authority has released its inaugural report titled Hospital Performance: Time patients spent in emergency departments in 2011-12 (external site). This report examines the time patients spent in Emergency Departments (EDs) following the introduction of the National Emergency Access Target (NEAT); and reports on the percentage of patients departing EDs within four hours of arrival and the length of time until most patients departed the ED.